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WHICH CPU? I own an acer aspire t180 with an amd sempron 3000+ its about 1.6ghz and i want to upgrade the processor to about 3ghz or more if possible can u tell me which processor will be compatible with my acer? Thanks.

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AMD Athlon 64 X2 5600+ ~ 3.20GHzThis is one of the crown jewel from AMD and is very robustthanks and regards

I dont believe you will be able to replace ONLY the CPU.. in order to upgrade.. you would more than likely have to upgrade the CPU as well as the motherboard... .. then upgrading motherboards... you will likely have to upgrade RAM as well.. unless you can find a motherboard that supports your current type of ram..

What type of acer aspire t180 do you have?

Here is my personal best suggestion...

buy a barebones system... and move all of your current hardware to this new system...

the reason why i suggest this.. is because.. occasionally.. companies make their towers and motherboards... so that you cannot put in another type of motherboard... they wont line up correctly.. and so on...

I just found this by searching on pricewatch

http://www.barebonekit.net/customkititems.asp?kc=DTBBFXC661P4540

then change the Ram to 2gb and it makes the total $198..

now you have a 3.2ghz Pentium 4 pc.. with 2gb of ram... and a tower... it has onboard video.. and sound i believe... so all you would need to do is move your hard drive/cdrom videocard etc over... if you need a new videocard.. search pricewatch.com... good deals there...

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